This is not your average show and tell antique picture book If you only think you like barbershop antiques and collectibles, this book is for you It is the first volume that covers the entire spectrum of old-time barbershop items: poles, chairs, mugs, bottles, razors and much more. Even better, it takes you on a delightful romp through the occupational history of traditional barbershops, which are fading today. By chronicling the golden years of barbering, the book is guaranteed to be both informative and fun. Every page presents what, where, why, when, and how information. More than 900...

Are you tired of coming home after a long day and having to slave away in the kitchen?
Freezer meals are meals that are made in advance and placed in the freezer, so you'll have a meal ready to go when you need it. Spend a day cooking once or twice a month and you'll be able to cook enough meals to last you the rest of the month.
This helpful guide lays the foundation for you to be able to quickly and easily cook real food every day of the week. Learn how to successfully plan a freezer meal cooking day, figure out the ingredients you're going to need and how to package and label the...

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need to carry out their own corpus-based research.

This book:

• explores the kinds of corpora available and the tools which can be used to analyse them;
• looks at specific ways in which features of grammar can be explored using a corpus through analysis of areas such as frequency and colligation;
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Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need to carry out their own corpus-based research.

This book:

• explores the kinds of corpora available and the tools which can be used to analyse them;
• looks at specific ways in which features of grammar can be explored using a corpus through analysis of areas such as frequency and colligation;
...

Successful Spoken English demonstrates how spoken learner corpora can be used to define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that language learners can speak effectively whilst still using some non-standard forms, this book:

• Examines databases of transcribed speech from learners at each different CEFR level to analyse what makes a successful speaker of English;
• Discusses features of communicative competence, including the use of linguistic strategies, organisation of extended stretches of speech, and sensitivity...

Bringing together an international team of researchers, this volume explores practice in second language learning - activities which aim to develop skills in or knowledge of a second language. The book begins with two theoretical overviews of practice as applied to learning to speak in a second language and in cognitive accounts of second language acquisition. This theory underpins the volume which is split into two main sections: receptive and productive practice. The studies look at practice in English, German and Spanish as a second language in various contexts including traditional...

Explores practice in second language learning, defined as activities which aim to develop skills in or knowledge of a second language. The book features studies that investigate practice in a variety of contexts and is ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics/TESOL and second language teachers.